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- Title
What Child Is This?: Closely Reading Collectivity and Queer Childrearing in "Lackawanna Blues" and "Noah's Arc."
- Authors
Stephens, Vincent
- Abstract
This article examines the themes of African American collectivity and same-sex couple parenting as depicted in the television film "Lackawanna Blues" and the television series "Noah's Arc." The author first focuses on the depiction of other-mothering in the former film, in which African American women other than biological mothers help raise a community's children, as a means to explore an African American collective challenge to heteronormativity. He goes on to explore how "Noah's Arc" depicts the importance of collectivity to the African American gay male community while subverting the traditional depiction of gay families as white through its depiction of same-sex parenting.
- Subjects
LACKAWANNA Blues (Film); NOAH'S Arc (TV program : 2005); COMMUNITY relations; AFRICAN American families; HETERONORMATIVITY; CHILD rearing; SAME-sex parents; GAY families
- Publication
African American Review, 2011, Vol 44, Issue 1/2, p235
- ISSN
1062-4783
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/afa.2011.0021